AP Leadership Discussions Questions

Group 1
Questions and Answers

1. What does the data tell you? WCH is considerably lower than other higher schools in the district
2. What does the data NOT tell you? The number of new teachers. The method of delivery of instruction regardlessoff teacher knowledge. The evaluation data includes non- EOC teachers.
3. What overall conclusions can you make about the data? The data doesn't show clear correlation.
4. What surprised you or your team about the data? nothing
5. If you were the new Superintendent of Craven County Schools, how would you respond to this data? I would look at each school on a case by case basis and analyze like we do our students

Discussion Group 2

1. What does the data tell you? Performance on assessment does not always correlate with teacher ratings
2. What does the data NOT tell you? number of years of teaching, change in evaluators and skills level in understanding the instrument
3. What overall conclusions can you make about the data? not always strong correlation between the school performance and teacher performance ratings
4. What surprised you or your team about the data? range across the district
5. If you were the new Superintendent of Craven County Schools, how would you respond to this data? asking a lot of questions, training to close the gap on subjectivity of data

Discussion group 3

1. What does the data tell you? Most of the western schools rated had a low percentage of teachers distingished on standard 3. The link between teacher effectiveness and student success
2. What does the data NOT tell you? What teachers are included in the data/ middle and high wonder about the teachers of non-tested areas. Questions about: Attendance, discipline issues, amount of parental support, the "human" element, consitency among administartor evaluation process.
3. What overall conclusions can you make about the data? Not always a correlation betweeen student performance and teacher evaluations.
4. What surprised you or your team about the data? All the things the data does not tell us.
5. If you were the new Superintendent of Craven County Schools, how would you respond to this data? To ensure there is consistency in training for those that evaluate so there is a common understanding of the standards.

Discussion group 4

1. What does the data tell you? School's composite scores versus growth.
2. What does the data NOT tell you?Different perspectives on the understanding of the ratings. New teachers, career teachers.
3. What overall conclusions can you make about the data? Teacher adjustments need to be made. Schools need to carefully explain teacher ratings as compared to student outcomes.
4. What surprised you or your team about the data? Some schools will have high ratings for teachers but the student data doesn't reflect it.
5. If you were the new Superintendent of Craven County Schools, how would you respond to this data? Standardized the training for administrators and teachers.

Discussion group 5

1. What does the data tell you? Some schools that met expected or high growth show high performance on evauluations, others reflected the opposite.
2. What does the data NOT tell you? How many observations were done on paper and not entered into McRel. Were the people evaluated in tested areas?
3. What overall conclusions can you make about the data? It will be more powerful this year since all teachers data will be entered.
4. What surprised you or your team about the data? The number of observations at the different schools.
5. If you were the new Superintendent of Craven County Schools, how would you respond to this data? We would sit and watch since we only have one year of data and that data is incomplete.